Kodwo Eshun - More Brilliant than the Sun.

George Russell: 'Music is architecture. I build structures. Buildings go up - they're vertical forms. My focus is on the vertical evolution of a form, not necessarily on the horizontal/linear exposition of the form'

The African drumchoir complexifies the beat into distributed Polyrhythmachines, webbed networks of poly*counter*contra*cross*staggered rhythms that function like the dispersed architecture of artificial life by generating emergent consciousness.

The older the Rhythmachine, the more futuristic it is. To hark back to Ghanaian, Indian or Vietnamese sonic past is to go forward into a new future. To listen to Advanced Rhythmic Technologies (centuries old) is to hear the evolution of technology centuries down the line ahead.